velame
The verdict
“velame” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #80,035 among 501 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,035
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - conjunto de velas de uma embarcação
Corpus desk
Index PT-velame · velame · Portuguese
velame · rank #80,035 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,035
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH velódromo
Nearest frequency peer: velódromo (+2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “velame”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- tâmara
tâmara
19,981 corpus weight
- têmpora
têmpora
19,979 corpus weight
- utilitarista
utilitarista
19,972 corpus weight
- velame
velame
19,966 corpus weight
- velódromo
velódromo
19,964 corpus weight
- violette
violette
19,958 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “velame” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | velame |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “velame” em português
Rare enough to double-check
velame is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #80,035 among 501 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for velame in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is velame, spelled V-E-L-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1conjunto de velas de uma embarcação
- 2parte do paraquedas feita de tela ou outro material resistente que, ao abrir-se, assume forma abaulada e reduz a velocidade
- 3cobertura; invólucro
- 4disfarce
- 5Croton campestris, planta arbustiva da família das euforbiáceas, de flores brancas e folhas tomentosas e aromáticas, usada na medicina popular pelas propriedades depurativas
- 6denominação comum de várias espécies de plantas com folhas tomentosas
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how velame appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O velame foi içado ao vento
Synonyms
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).